New Grad resume example (no work experience)
With no jobs to list, projects have to carry the page — and most new grad resumes waste them on tool lists. This example scores 95/100 against our 30 published rules, our highest, and every project bullet names a number instead of a technology.
Measured by exporting this exact resume and running it through the 30 rules we publish. Certified: we only badge templates at 90 or above, a stricter bar than the 85 our checker calls interview-ready, so the design leaves headroom for your own content.
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Why these bullets work
Every line below is taken verbatim from the resume above.
“Real-time order tracking over WebSockets for 40+ daily orders across 3 campus canteens”
Real users, real volume. 'Built a food ordering app' is a class assignment; 40 orders a day across three canteens is a system somebody depends on.
“Deployed on a $5 VPS with Docker and a GitHub Actions pipeline; 99% uptime over 6 months”
Shipping and keeping it alive is what separates a new grad who has built something from one who has finished a tutorial. Uptime over six months is unusually strong evidence.
“Trained a CNN on 12k labelled frames to 91% accuracy on 26 static gestures”
Dataset size, accuracy and scope, in that order. Recruiters cannot verify your model, but they can tell whether you know which numbers matter.
“Real-time webcam inference at 24 fps; 2nd place among 84 teams at HackMeridian 2025”
A ranked result against a known field is external validation — the closest thing a new grad has to a reference.
Making it yours
- Put projects above education if your projects are stronger than your marks; this example does.
- Give every project a number: users, records, accuracy, uptime, or people on the team.
- Include the deploy link or repo. Anything a recruiter can click beats anything they must believe.
- Skip 'hardworking' and 'quick learner' — they cost you space and add nothing a shortlist can act on.
Common questions
What goes on a new grad resume with no experience at all?
Projects, internships, coursework you actually applied, and anything externally judged — hackathons, competitions, volunteering with numbers attached. This example has no full-time job on it and still scores 95/100.
One page or two for a new grad?
One. Always. If it runs over, your bullets are describing tasks instead of results.
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